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| Date: | 09 18 1961 |
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| Description: | Main street of the town, shown during reconstruction for use as a motion picture set. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of the hotel across from the Mercer Supply Company. There is a small dog in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Little Finland Cabins featuring a steam bath. There is a large woodpile at one side of the building. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Gus Savera built his service garage along Highway 77 in the mid-1940s. It was constructed out of cinder blocks and featured bright blue trim. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from water of vacation cabins and boats along lake shoreline of Turtle Flowage. The roof of the building on the right says: "Al's Place / Lunches — Ca... |
| Date: | 03 1899 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of man wearing an overcoat and hat stands with a shovel at the far end of a snow tunnel shoveled through a tall snowbank. |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman turns her back on an agent as they enter the establishment where she worked at the beginning of a raid on many Hurley area bars. The arrest warrant... |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Three women hide their faces as they walk in front of State Agents after exiting their place of business during a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establi... |
| Date: | 07 04 1942 |
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| Description: | State Agent (left, with face blacked out to prevent future identification) as he seized the operator of the roulette table at the Ritz Bar after a sweeping... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View up Silver Street in Hurley. |
| Date: | 08 02 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Silver Street in Hurley at 4:30 a.m., Sunday morning, showing busy street and all establishment's lights blazing. After the sweeping raid ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View of a two-story gabled roof lodge, Voss' Birchwood Lodge on Spider Lake. It has a stone chimney and a brick chimney, as well as a front porch and is su... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | View of the entrance to Voss' Birchwood Lodge on Spider Lake. On the right are two birdhouses and a log entrance that says Voss' Resort. On the right is a ... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View looking out over the boats at docks on Spider Lake at Voss' Birchwood Lodge. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View down road of an automobile parked outside the two-story Tower Tea Room, Rest Lake. The one-story building on the right has a sign that says "Crank Cas... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View across yard of three people standing on the porch of the two-story Northern Lakes Hotel on Rest Lake. There is a stone chimney and brickwork around th... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Woman standing outside of the two-story Post Office building in Manitowish. There is a road, fence and pine trees in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Automobiles and trucks parked along Main Street in Mercer. Storefront signs on the left side read: Sweet Shop, Drug, The Store, Coffee Shop, and Rugee's Me... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View looking at the automobiles parked in front of the stores along Main Street. Storefront signs on the left say: Mercer Auto Company, Mercer Garage, Good... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View acriss water of shoreline and three cottages at Dalbec's, Lake of the Falls. |
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